MOON PROBE

Moscow: Russia will resume a longdormant quest to explore the moon by sending an unmanned probe there in 2015, the head of the space agency was quoted as saying on Tuesday. The craft, called LunaGlob, or MoonGlobe, will be carried by the first rocket to blast off from a new...

Beijing: China's third lunar probe, Chang'e3, is expected to be launched next year and it will conduct moon landing and lunar explorations, a top space official has said. Different from the previous two orbiters, Chang'e3 has "legs" to support the spacecraft in landing, Ye Peijian, chief commander of Chang'e3 at...